| name | ieee-transactions-on-industrial-electronics |
| description | Use when targeting IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE) or deciding whether an industrial-application electronics, drives, or control manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the experimentally-validated industrial-application bar, hardware-evidence rigor, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. |
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (ieee-transactions-on-industrial-electronics)
Journal positioning
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), published by the IEEE
Industrial Electronics Society, is a flagship venue for the application of
electronics, control, instrumentation, and computational intelligence to
industrial systems: motor drives and motion control, power-electronics
applications, industrial informatics and communication, mechatronics, fault
diagnosis and condition monitoring, and robotics for industry. The defining
expectation is a concrete advance demonstrated on a real industrial problem and
validated experimentally, not a pure theory paper or a converter-topology
study with no system-level industrial framing. Its scope is broader on the
application side than ieee-transactions-on-power-electronics, whose center of
gravity is the converter/topology itself. This skill is a fit /
venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current
official author information. Before submitting, re-check the live IEEE TIE author
guidance and submission system.
When to trigger
- The author names TIE for a drives, motion-control, industrial-informatics,
mechatronics, or fault-diagnosis manuscript and wants a fit/framing check.
- A contribution must be re-framed from "we propose a method" into an
industrial-application advance with experimental hardware evidence.
- The author is choosing between TIE and
ieee-transactions-on-power-electronics,
ieee-transactions-on-automatic-control, or ieee-transactions-on-robotics.
- The author needs TIE's experimental-validation bar and desk-reject heuristics.
Scope & topic fit
- Motor drives and electrical machines control: field-oriented and
direct-torque control, sensorless drives, multiphase and fault-tolerant drives.
- Motion control and mechatronics: servo systems, precision positioning,
vibration suppression, and actuator/sensor integration for industrial machines.
- Power-electronics applications at the system level: renewable interfaces,
grid-tied inverters, EV powertrains — framed by the industrial use, not the topology alone.
- Industrial informatics and the industrial IoT: real-time communication,
edge/embedded computation, digital twins, and Industry 4.0 system integration.
- Fault diagnosis, prognosis, and condition monitoring of drives, machines, and
power-electronic systems, with measured or realistically emulated fault data.
- Computational intelligence (learning, fuzzy, evolutionary methods) deployed in
an industrial control/diagnosis loop, evaluated against an industrial baseline.
Method & evidence bar
- Experimental validation is expected: a hardware prototype, test bench, or
dSPACE/FPGA real-time implementation; simulation-only papers are a weak fit
unless the contribution is explicitly a modeling/design framework with a strong rationale.
- Report the experimental setup completely: machine/converter ratings, switching
frequency, controller hardware, sampling rate, and sensing, so results are reproducible.
- Benchmark against an established industrial method under matched operating
conditions; quantify the improvement (efficiency, dynamic response, THD, ripple, accuracy).
- Demonstrate robustness to the realities of industrial operation: parameter
variation, load disturbance, measurement noise, and transients — not only nominal steady state.
- Stability/convergence claims, where made, must be justified; for learning-based
schemes, address generalization beyond the single rig.
- Position the advance against recent TIE-relevant literature, not a decade-old strawman.
Structure & house style
- IEEE double-column format; TIE publishes full Papers and shorter
contributions — match the article type to the contribution and re-check current
definitions and length policy on the live guide.
- The introduction motivates an industrial need and the gap in existing practice,
then states the contribution; survey-style introductions without a sharp gap are discouraged.
- Figures are load-bearing: control block diagrams, experimental waveforms with
labeled scales, and comparison plots against the baseline method.
- A clear experimental-results section is central; tables should summarize
quantitative comparisons under defined operating points.
- Keep the theory proportionate to the application contribution; deep proofs that
dwarf the industrial result suggest a control-theory venue instead.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.md and
../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the IEEE Author Center
anchors, then cite the current TIE-specific page you checked.
- Search the live site for "IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics information
for authors" and follow the current ScholarOne/IEEE version.
- Re-check article types, page/length limits and any overlength/mandatory-page
policy, and the IEEE double-column template.
- Confirm experimental-data, reproducibility, and any video/supplementary-material expectations.
- Re-check ORCID, competing-interests, funding, author-contribution, and AI-use
disclosure requirements, and IEEE open-access options.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official
instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
Common desk-reject triggers
- Pure-theory or simulation-only paper with no experimental validation and no compelling reason.
- A converter-topology or power-stage study with no system-level industrial application framing.
- Incremental tweak to a known control/diagnosis scheme with marginal, unbenchmarked gains.
- A machine-learning paper using an industrial dataset as a label, with no deployment or industrial loop.
- Scope mismatch: control theory, communications, or signal processing with industry only as a keyword.
Re-routing decision
- Converter topology / power-stage design as the core →
ieee-transactions-on-power-electronics.
- General control theory with provable guarantees as the contribution →
ieee-transactions-on-automatic-control / automatica.
- Robotics for manipulation/locomotion as the central result →
ieee-transactions-on-robotics.
- Signal/biosignal processing as the core →
ieee-transactions-on-signal-processing.
- Antenna/EM or instrumentation-measurement focus →
ieee-transactions-on-antennas-and-propagation or a measurement venue.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest industrial-electronics subtopics>
[Application] <the industrial problem and the advance in one line>
[Method/evidence] <does the experimental validation clear TIE's hardware + benchmark bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Article type] Paper / shorter contribution
[Official items to re-check] <article type / length / template / experimental-data / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
